India - the Mother

August 9, 1969

UNESCO want to publish a brochure on "tolerance," and they wrote for a message from me. So I wrote something (Mother laughs), here it is "Tolerance is only the first step towards wisdom.

"The need to tolerate indicates the presence of preferences.

"He whose consciousness is one with the Supreme Consciousness meets all things with a perfect equanimity."

They puff themselves up like that, they still think themselves highly superior because they have "tolerance"—and tolerance is looking down on things with contempt.

(The conversation turns to India's fast-growing population.)

There would be one way, that is to make human beings sterile. That would be the best way. And it seems they have already found something; if a woman takes it regularly, she doesn't have a child—a pill.

Yes, but people don't want it.

More and more"want it.... Oh, there's still that old sentimental attachment. No, as long as death is there, the sense of the necessity of reproduction is there; it's the presence of death that makes things like that, like a need. But if death were no longer there ...

I don't know about other countries, but here, any deliberate abortion was a crime, that is, punishable under the law—they're now getting rid of that. There are too many people.

When you just look at Pondicherry,its frightful.

Oh, when they are five, six ... up to twelve! There are families with twelve children. So it's really too rapid a multiplication.

(After a silence) The Consciousness insists a lot on the need to become conscious and do things at will : one should be born at will, die at will, fall ill at will—will must be the dominant principle. It insists on that a lot.

I think that would change a lot of things.

Mother's Agenda: August 9, 1969